On 16/04/2008, at 22:15, Graham Fawcett wrote:

Hi folks, I'm a newbie, so please forgive any terminological mistakes.

I've been using Shim in Emacs with great success, but there's one issue I've encountered, and I don't know if it's configuration problem or something fundamental. Consider a module 'App' and submodules 'App.Front' and 'App.Back'. When editing code in App that depends on the submodules, Shim works well at resolving the location of the submodules, and validates my code. But when editing App.Front, which depends on App.Back, Shim fails to validate -- my working directory is App.Front, and Shim doesn't seem able to find the location of App.Back.

I'd like to be able to tell Shim that 'App' is the root of my project, and to locate modules from that root. Is this possible?

Shim already does this. All it requires is that your project is a Cabal project. Shim will locate the Cabal descriptor and auto configure itself from there. Does that solve your problem ? Cheers pepe

I'd like to be able to tell Shim that 'App' is the root of my project, and to locate modules from that root. Is this possible? If adding the cabal file does'nt work contact me and we'll try to reslove this issue. Are you willing to test new versions/ extensions? Are you already using ghc-6.8 ? Must shim still work for ghc-6.6 ?

On a related note, it seems that Shim is moribund (though others have No it is not / won't in the near future Benedikt (author) has even takled to me on irc for 20min I'm the one who has asked and forked because of vim. But I don't plan to keep it forked. That time I didn't knew how to contribute and didn't got any feedback. That's why I've put another shim repository on my server. Maybe you also want to help? It would be cool to get shim integrated into the EclipseFP as well. But there is still a lot to do.

Anyway it's nice to see that shim is beeing used. Marc Weber